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Association of a Mediterranean Diet With Outcomes for Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Advanced Melanoma

JAMA Oncology Author Interviews

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The Association of Diet and Outcomes With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

I'm a medical oncologist and treat patients with metastatic melanoma. Metastatic melanoma was the first cancer that immunotherapy worked very well in. So, this kind of study with only 91% is even larger, I think, in this field. Let's turn to the results. Can you tell us some of the key findings you saw for the Association of Diet and Outcomes with Immune Checkpoint Blockade? Yes, so coming back to those food-frequency questionnaires, what we did with those is performing dietary pattern analyses. And these dietary patterns, we then linked to the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

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